Flickr hacks are so cool and make your life much easier. Enclosed you will find 30+ flickr hacks, tips, and how-tos. Actually I link to 21 of them. Anyway here they are:

• Tag photos and blog posts with emotions. So few people do that and only tag objects or subjects, yet having the emotions tagged for flickr photos, blog posts, and video is critical to finding the info again. (I’m sure everyone from Robert Scoble to Dave Weinberger would agree)

• If you are a Flickr user or a blogger, put your content under partial or full creative commons license. That makes it easier to travel and people are more likely to find it and post it with their content. I noticed that even John Edwards campaign capitalized on this.

• This one is worth the price of admission: Use your del.icio.us or social bookmarking account to save your best creative commons photos.

• I use the tag “flickr” for all these photos, but “creativecommons” is probably much better. Its cool, because del.icio.us gives you a neat 1.25 x 1.25 picture of your photo–very helpful. (I have upwards of 430 photos saved on my del.icio.us account) This tip is particularly helpful if you are trying to create a powerpoint or keynote presentation using flickr.

• Be smart. As a general rule, after each Flickr download session, store all your flickr photos together in one folder. Otherwise your organization will look like spaggetti (aka a nightmare for your mind and your productivity and people will make fun of your desktop)

• Always, always, always attribute. Its very easy and its a return of the favor of someone creating a great design. (this was a mistake I made for about 2-3 weeks)

• Of course picking out and friending and chatting and networking Flickr users that you respect or look up to always helps. It never hurts to ask for suggestions about tools, method, or subjects whether via comment or email.